Solid State Surface Science, Vol. 1

Frederick Tompkins was a physical chemist of great distinction whose contributions to the development of two research fields, surface science and solid state reactions, were matched by his long service as Secretary and Editor of the Faraday Society. Throughout his career he had the knack of attracting bright young students into his research group and, through a rigorous apprenticeship, turning them out as scientists who went on to occupy senior academic positions around the world. Thus his influence extended well beyond his own immediate contributions. Tompkins's early studies of adsorption (the taking–up of gases by surfaces) on solid surfaces were on polar solids but, although this was always maintained as an interest, perhaps his best–known contributions to adsorption studies were on metal surfaces. Work initiated in the 1950s, based on metal films deposited under stringent conditions and covering a range of different physical techniques, established his reputation firmly in the field of chemisorption on metals. Students and postdoctoral workers of his continued the development of this field. Tompkins was born in Yeovil, Somerset, in 1910, and was pleased to record that his scientific attainment at Yeovil Grammar School, which won him a County Scholarship to Bristol University, was matched by his talent as an essayist and as a pianist. As an undergraduate he was greatly influenced by the teaching of William Garner (FRS 1937) and of John (later Sir John) Lennard–Jones (FRS 1933), and at the age of 20 years he graduated with first–class honours in chemistry and theoretical physics. He completed his PhD at Bristol with Garner, who first introduced him to both surface and solid state chemistry.

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The close ties between organometallic chemistry, surface science, and the solid state

Pure and Applied Chemistry ◽

10.1351/pac198658040481 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 481-494 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

R. Hoffmann ◽

S. D. Wijeyesekera ◽

Shen-shu Sung

Keyword(s):

Solid State ◽

Organometallic Chemistry ◽

Surface Science

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Solid State Surface Science Vol 3

Physics Bulletin ◽

10.1088/0031-9112/25/6/036 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 25 (6) ◽

pp. 239-239

Author(s):

A M Stoneham

Keyword(s):

Solid State ◽

Surface Science

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A New Aspect in Computational Nanomaterial Science: Odd Electrons in Molecular Chemistry, Surface Science, and Solid State Magnetism

Materials Science Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.555.19 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 555 ◽

pp. 19-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

E.F. Sheka

Keyword(s):

Solid State ◽

Metal Complexes ◽

Surface Science ◽

Silicon Crystal ◽

Molecular Crystals ◽

Current Paper ◽

Molecular Magnetism ◽

Conceptual Basis ◽

Molecular Chemistry ◽

Transitional Metal

A unified theoretical and/or computational odd-electrons approach is suggested for molecules, surfaces and magnetic solids making possible their consideration on the same conceptual basis as well as on the same computational footing. The current paper presents the approach application to the chemistry of fullerenes, carboneous nanotubes, surface science of silicon crystal, as well as to the molecular magnetism of both solid polymerized fullerenes and molecular crystals composed of transitional metal complexes.

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Spin I = 1 NMR Patterns for the Case of Twofold Internal Spin Interactions

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A ◽

10.1515/zna-1987-0907 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 42 (9) ◽

pp. 948-956 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

B. Boddenberg ◽

G. Neue

Keyword(s):

Solid State ◽

Surface Science ◽

Solid State Nmr ◽

High Field ◽

Electric Field Gradient Tensor ◽

Operator Formalism ◽

Gradient Tensor ◽

Practical Applications ◽

Spin Interactions ◽

Shielding Tensor

An operator formalism is developed which allows a convenient calculation of high field spin I = 1 solid state NMR powder spectra for the case that the spins are acted on not only electrically via an electric field gradient tensor but also magnetically via a shielding tensor. Examples of practical applications in the field of surface science are given.

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